Upon reaching adulthood, Dave Lister still frequented the Aigburth Arms, and had had become something of a legend on the Grav-Pool table.

Three million years later, Lister was able to put these skills to the test when the "played pool with planets". Lister succeeded with a successful trick shot - firing an experimental nuclear bomb inside a mining torpedo from Starbug, using the operations table as a makeshift pool table on which Lister's actions directed the trajectory of the missile. He did this whilst drunk, which always improved his game. The explosion knocked a planet into a sun, which in turn caused a solar flare to knock a larger planet into (and block up) a white hole. ("White Hole")